AT&T says it has enough cash and desire to close the T-Mobile deal

0.phoneArenaposted on07 Dec 2011, 19:47

AT&T says it has the cash on hand to quickly close its proposed $39 billion purchase of rival T-Mobile; the company says it feels that it can win the lawsuit it faces against the Department of Justice; the carrier is continuing to push forward with the deal despite pulling its application with the FCC...

Let them do it. The government allowed Verizon to get a huge chunk of AWS airwaves. T-Mo owners want to sell. Sprint could not afford them and no one else besides Verizon can. Get it over with and tell AT&T that they cannot raise rates on any AT&T or T-Mo customers for 5 years.

What I have been advocating for.... In fact, AT&T should be prohibited from any outside investment until they get their network metrics (customer satisfaction, dropped calls, data speed, etc.) up to a level that is at least 95% of how VZW scores.

Where do you people live? I live outside Philadelphia and get service every where except my bunker of an appartment where I have to go to a window but once there I get 3-5 bars of 4g in fact the last time I remember seeing 3g was when I had my tilt 2 since I got my inspire I haven't seen 3g speeds or lower I havn't had a dropped call in like 3yrs and I travel all over from DC, AC,and NY with no issues I had Sprint, Tmo, then Cingular and now AT&T. Cingular and AT&T had been the best I have no complaints

All kidding aside (i.e. your comment of ATT and its hostile takeover of Tmobile USA), ATT CANNOT improve its dropped calls unless it has more spectrum. The DROPPED CALLS are a symptom of spectrum constraints.

ATT is in a catch 20-20 situation based on your comment.

Lastly, you get thumbs dumb for making really inane comments like ATT will engage in a hostile takeover of Tmobile USA.

ledbetter, having owned a captivate and now a DROID RAZR - AT&T does get better speeds - I am lucky to get 1mbps down on Verizon 3G, at least where I live, and I get 3.5-5 down with the captivate. But, when LTE 4G goes lives, then Verizon will be the obvious winner for me.

If the FCC told them that the only way it would allow it is if they matched Tmobile's rates for all customers for the next 4 or 5 years, I could get behind that. They would never be able to pull their rates back up and it would force VZW's rates down really quickly. :)

I doubt AT&T would accept that condition due to the impact they would claim it would have on their revenues and by extension, profits. Of course, if they dropped any pretense of customer support, it might fly.

For a company with the worst customer service, least innovation and highest rates be allowed to march this far on its path of destroying its sole GSM competitor is beyond belief.
With the advent of wireless technology, rates should only go down to around $20/mo in the next 4-5 years, not stay at par! SHAME ON GREED !!!

Greed is a symptom of capitalism, unfortunately.
However, when the merger does happen - by 2013-14, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T will all have, hopefully, large 4G LTE networks. Competition will be fine, until Sprint can no longer afford to tack on more debt :-)

13.hepresearch (unregistered)

I really am not keen on this merger, but it looks to me like it will happen one way or another. AT&T and T-Mobile will do whatever it takes... find partners to divest to, whatever... they have set their desires on this, and it will happen. This is just the way it is gonna be for a while; less choice, higher prices, less competition, slower innovation.

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